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by slfnflctd 2987 days ago
At the very least, someone should crunch the numbers and find out. It's anyone's guess how the ratios will skew until you measure them.

How to approach this fairly is a whole other can of worms; there will almost inevitably be some unjust outcomes.

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The data is here: https://gov.oregonlive.com/pers/ (you can download a CSV).

There are 2,032 people making over $100,000 per year. The sum of their pensions is $252,144,041.04 per year. If each were capped at $100,000 per year that would be $203,200,000 per year, so a potential savings of $48,944,041.04